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You can never have too many nonfiction text structure resources! This skill is incredibly difficult for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to understand because there are so many different things they have to understand in order to be successful with it. Students need all the practice they can get. 🙂
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Use this free resource to help introduce and review this text structure with your students. It starts with short text (sentences), making sure students can actually distinguish between problem and solution and other text structures.
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Finally, upper elementary students will get to practice problem and solution in a longer, one page passage.
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American Explorers infer and support the main idea of a passage
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Mentor Texts for Informational Text Structures

Teaching informational text structures, just like any concept, can be done in a number of ways. One of my favorite teaching strategies though is to use mentor texts.
I love using picture books with upper elementary students because they’re motivating! Another plus is that a mentor text can be completed rather quickly, which is a bonus when the school day is packed with more to teach than time allows.
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Here are the text structures i teach, with some of my favorite mentor texts pictured:.

Description
Nonfiction books that describe something, in no particular time order, fall under the description category. These books give lots of facts about a particular subject, like llamas, or bicycles, or Yellowstone Park!
Here’s a list of mentor texts with a descriptive text structure:
- Our Amazing World’s Penguins
- National Geographic’s Planets
- Dinosaurs: A Kids Book Around Dinosaurs
- Inside Out: Human Body
- Take Off! All About Airplanes
- Hurricanes by Gail Gibbons
- My Book of Rocks and Minerals
- Smithsonian’s Everything You Need to Know About Birds
- A True Book: Comets and Meteor Showers

Order and Sequence
Order and Sequence books present informational text topics in chronological order. Many biographies and history books fall into this category.
So, the life cycle of butterflies, Walt Disney’s life story, and the making of the Great Wall could be written with an Order and Sequence text structure.
Here’s a list of mentor texts with an order and sequence text structure:
- The Children’s Book of the Eiffel Tower
- A Frog’s Life
- Biography’s Amelia Earhart
- Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
- The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin
- Flute’s Journey
- Castle by David Macaulay
- Time for Kids: A Butterly’s Life
- Milk: From Cow to Carton

Compare and Contrast
This informational text structure is all about looking at two different people, animals, or things and finding the ways they are alike and how they’re different. Some Compare and Contrast books are written so that the items are compared and contrasted concurrently.
For example, an author might write that dolphins are mammals and have lungs, while sharks are fish and have gills. Other Compare and Contrast books describe the first subject in its entirety and then describe the second subject.
Examples for this category would be books comparing Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin, hawks to owls, or the Eiffel Tower to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Here’s a list of mentor texts with a compare and contrast text structure:
- Are You a Snail?
- Teeth by Sneed B. Collard
- Butterflies and Moths
- What’s the Difference?
- Sharks and Dolphins
- National Geographic Kids: Cats vs. Dogs
- All About Big Cats
- What’s the Difference Between an Alligator and a Crocodile?
- Living Things and Nonliving Things

Cause and Effect
Picture books, magazine articles, or any type of passage that is written in the Cause and Effect text structure will show how one event caused another. Topics that have this type of text structure might include animal adaptations, historical events such as war, and naturally occurring phenomena like volcanoes or earthquakes.
This text structure is often confused with Problem and Solution. I do make sure to tell students that if they only see a cause and effect with no solution, it is simply Cause and Effect.
If something happens and a solution is proposed, it’s Problem and Solution. For example, if the author is discussing how some people litter and how it leads to pollution, that’s Cause and Effect. If the author mentions littering as a form of pollution and then tells about how this can be resolved, then it’s Problem and Solution.
Here’s a list of mentor texts with a cause and effect text structure:
- Volcanoes
- Toad Overload
- The Reason for a Flower
- Thunder and Lightning
- What Happens to a Hamburger
- From Tree to Paper
- What Are Germs and Why Do They Make Us Sick?
- Extreme Animals
- Transformed: How Everything Things Are Made

Problem and Solution
Nonfiction books that have the Problem and Solution text structure will present an issue, either past or present, and then describe how it was or could be remedied.
Books with topics such as a zoo’s efforts to save endangered pandas, Rachel Carson’s explanation of how pesticides such as DDT are harmful to birds and other animals and how they should be banned, or a book which discusses how rain forests are shrinking and what we can do to save them are all examples of the Problem and Solution text structure.
Here’s a list of mentor texts with a problem and solution text structure:
- Human Footprint
- When the Wolves Returned
- A Place for Birds
- Why Should I Recycle?
- The Rainforest Book
- The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans
- A Place for Butterflies
- If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
- Falcons Nests on Skyscrapers
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Finally, if you need some new Informational Text Structure materials, I have a unit that I love using. It comes in both print AND digital and has a teaching passage for each text structure, independent passages where students have to figure out the text structure, 32 task cards, posters, a flipbook, graphic organizers, and writing activities.

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Teaching Text Structure (And What To Do When Students Struggle)
Text structure is a very powerful reading skill that can really help students make sense of and analyze informational text. This post shares tips for teaching text structure, including pre-requisite skills, all the different text structure skills, and strategies for when students struggle.

What is Text Structure?
Text structure refers to how the details and information in a text are organized. There are five common types of text structure:
- Description
- Chronological Order/Sequence
- Compare and Contrast
- Problem and Solution
- Cause and Effect
When introducing text structures, I introduce them all at once and then we dive deep into specific text structures in the following days. The order above is how I traditionally sequence my teaching.
Why is Text Structure Important?
When readers identify and recognize the text structure of a text, this can significantly improve their comprehension and retention of information.
Understanding the text structure can help students:
- Organize information and details they are learning in their minds while reading
- Make connections between the details being presented in a text
- Summarize the important details shared in a text
Pre-Requisite Standards Before Teaching Text Structure
To teach text structure, make sure that you have taught or the students have a working knowledge of:
- That texts and authors have specific purposes
- That a text or section of text has a main idea that the author wants the reader to understand (The students may not be able to adequately generate or select a main idea but they need to understand that texts have these).
- That topics or events can be related in different ways (cause and effect, compare and contrast relationships, etc.). Students should have a working knowledge of how to identify these relationships at the sentence level.
Text Structure Skills Students Need to Master
Text structure skills vary from 4th to 5th grade. In 5th grade, the students are really expected to go much further than simple identification. Increasing the rigor for 4th grade students (who are ready) will plant those seeds and help them succeed in 5th grade.
5th grade teachers, on the other hand, may have to teach all of the text structure skills to get our students to the necessary rigor required (even the ones required by 4th because we know that retention is not always something that goes in our favor.)
- Identify the relationships between details (Are they describing the topic? Are they comparing and contrasting the topics?)
- Understand the key words used to show common relationships between details
- Understand text structures and their purposes (to convey information in an organized way that helps present the main idea)
- Identify the text structure used in a paragraph
- Prove the text structure by connecting it back to the main idea and details presented in the text
- Prove the text structure by identifying key words or clue words used
- Identify the overall text structure used by a text with multiple paragraphs
- Use the text structure of a text to help summarize the text
- Identify if a text includes multiple types of text structures and understand why
- Summarize key details presented in a text using a graphic organizer specific to the text structure
- Understand that texts on the same overall topic can be written using different text structures
- Compare and contrast text structures used by multiple texts on the same topic and understand why the text structures differ
- Explain why a particular text structure was used in a text (particularly when analyzing texts on the same topic with differing text structures)
Keep this list in mind when planning your whole group mini-lessons as well as your small group reading lessons. I spend two weeks teaching text structure in 5th grade (read more about my reading pacing here) . If you don’t have the time to do this, I recommend teaching these skills as part of your small group reading lessons.
Tips for Students Who Struggle with Text Structure
If students struggle with text structure, reteach these skills or check these for understanding:
1. Take it back to a sentence level. Can the students identify a cause and effect relationship in one sentence? Repeat this for the other text structures. If students struggle at the sentence level, provide the necessary instruction.
2. Provide additional instruction with key words/clue words with sorting and identification activities (identifying them in texts).
3. A lot of students confuse text structures with description because all text structures are basically describing. However, they are describing in specific ways. For example, cats and dogs can be described by comparing and contrasting the two animals. I specifically discuss this with my students to help with confusion. I use this language, “Is the text describing the topic using a specific relationship (compare and contrast, cause and effect, etc.)?”
4. Highlight, point out, or underline the sentences that clearly show relationships in a text. Focus on those sentences, and ask the students what the details are showing you or how the details are related.
5. Connect the details with how they would be organized in a visual graphic organizer. If students can visualize the best way to organize details in a text, they will be able to identify the text structure with greater success. This can be modeled through direct instruction by completing graphic organizers together or by matching them to specific texts.
6. The connection between reading and writing is very strong with text structures. One way I help my students understand text structure is by connecting it to their writing by having them write using specific text structures.
Note: Basic reading comprehension of a text is required for students to understand the details and how they are related/connected. If your students cannot do this, they will likely struggle with identifying and writing about the text structure of grade level (or even approaching grade level) texts. One way to help with skill instruction is by using a lower lexile. Click here to see passages and texts written for 4th and 5th grade skills but at a 2nd/3rd grade lexile level.
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Study problem and solution nonfiction text structure with 6 short reading passages, questions, and graphic organizers. Options include print, Easel Activities, Google Forms (passages), and Google Slides (graphic organizers). Each passage features one paragraph of informational text and 4 multiple-choice questions.
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5th Grade Reading Worksheet Practice with Problem & Solution In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.
ONE PAGE READINGS (all grades) Our Streets (2nd grade reading level) After the Chicago Fire sequence and summarize (3rd grade reading level) American Explorers evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea (3rd grade reading level) Animal Studies infer and support the main idea of a passage (3rd grade reading level)
Problem and Solution Text Structure Practice: Free Printable You can never have too many nonfiction text structure resources! This skill is incredibly difficult for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to understand because there are so many different things they have to understand in order to be successful with it.
5th Grade. Resources to Guide and Assess Nonfiction Reading/Thinking\Writing Aligned with Common Core Standards. One-Page Readings. These passages are listed at their readability level according to the Fry formula. However, you may want to use a reading from an earlier grade level because the. formula does not factor in conceptual difficulty of ...
Grade 5 Problem and Solution CCSS: CCRA.R.5, RI.5.5 In order to survive, the Plains Indians drew upon all of their skills and intelligence to hunt and make use of the buffalo. Once conquered, the buffalo provided hides that were used for clothing and moccasins.
If something happens and a solution is proposed, it's Problem and Solution. For example, if the author is discussing how some people litter and how it leads to pollution, that's Cause and Effect. If the author mentions littering as a form of pollution and then tells about how this can be resolved, then it's Problem and Solution.
Problem and Solution; Cause and Effect; When introducing text structures, I introduce them all at once and then we dive deep into specific text structures in the following days. ... Text structure skills vary from 4th to 5th grade. In 5th grade, the students are really expected to go much further than simple identification. Increasing the rigor ...